Let's try to imagine what awaits humanity in the near foreseeable future, unless, of course, there are no global cataclysms?
First of all, this is the energy revolution. In the coming years, thermonuclear fusion and renewable ("green") energy will give mankind an almost inexhaustible source of energy. Oil and hydrocarbons as a source of energy will become a thing of the past forever. 3D printing everything from medical instruments at the Martian colony to food at McDonald's will bring about a new industrial revolution that is already happening before our eyes. Exploration of the nearest space within the Solar System, and its colonization.
Cultivation and 3D printing of organs, stem cells, cyborgization and nanorobots in medicine (an artificial immune system, for example) will extend human life for decades, and possibly centuries within the next 5-7 years. Cancer and AIDS will be defeated. Paralyzed and disabled people will be able to live a fulfilling life.
By the middle of the century, science and progress will give humanity physical immortality, and by the end of the century they will make it available to the majority of the world's population. When the appearance and genome of a person can be genetically engineered before birth, all ethnic and racial issues will finally become a thing of the past.
Artificial intelligence will be created by the middle of the century. There are fears that this could lead to the fact that he eventually gets out of control and may try to enslave or destroy people. But this should not be feared, human intelligence is obliged and will develop and improve with the help of electronic implants, bioengineering and other achievements of scientific and technological progress, and will not yield to artificial intelligence. As a result, man and machine will merge and come to symbiosis, and the line between them will be erased until it is completely erased. In the future, it will be possible to transfer consciousness to an artificial medium. Each personality may even have more than one carrier body. It doesn't matter if it's an artificially created biological organism or a robotic android.
A voluntary "matrix", humanity will mentally move into a virtuality that is in no way inferior to reality and will eventually merge into a networked mind. In this regard, practically all current norms of public morality will become meaningless and hopelessly outdated, and, as unnecessary, will forever become a thing of the past.
Our mind will be able to exist in different forms of matter, simply written there from a non-biological medium. And, sooner or later, humanity will completely cease to be a biological species. The earth will change beyond recognition and the possible future, for example, the planet "Cybertron" from the universe "Transformers" will no longer seem so fantastic. It is possible that humanity itself will physically become a huge swarm-cloud, consisting of nanomachines, with a single mega-mind, which will subdue matter and continue the knowledge of the universe.
But, in any case, no matter how the future of the Earth develops, we must remember that our future depends only on ourselves, striving for development and freedom, creating it right today with our will, our thoughts, words and deeds, our creation.
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